Robert Frost Quotes

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I have just been to a city in the West, a city full of poets, a city they have made safe for poets. The whole city is so lovely that you do not have to write it up to make it poetry; it is ready-made for you. But, I don't know - the poetry written in that city might not seem like poetry if read outside of the city. It would be like the jokes made when you were drunk; you have to get drunk again to appreciate them.

Robert Frost
We've looked and looked, but after all where are we?
Do we know any better where we are,
And how it stands between the night tonight
And a man with a smoky lantern chimney?
How different from the way it ever stood?

Robert Frost
God nodded his approval of as good.
So much those heroes knew and understood,
I mean the great four, Washington,
John Adams, Jefferson, and Madison
So much they saw as consecrated seers
They must have seen ahead what not appears,
They would bring empires down about our ears
And by the example of our Declaration
Make everybody want to be a nation.

Robert Frost
I always have felt strange when we came home
To the dark house after so long an absence,
And the key rattled loudly into place
Seemed to warn someone to be getting out
At one door as we entered at another.

Robert Frost
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

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I wonder about the trees.
Why do we wish to bear
Forever the noise of these
More than another noise
So close to our dwelling place?

Robert Frost
I stopped my song and almost heart,
For any eye is an evil eye
That looks in onto a mood apart.

Robert Frost
Courage is of the heart by derivation,
And great it is. But fear is of the soul.

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I hold it the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

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If the day ever comes when they know who They are, they may know better where they are.

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Most of the change we think we see in life
Is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Robert Frost
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

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And one of the three great things in the world is gossip, you know. First there's religion; and then there's science; and there's—and then there's friendly gossip. Those are the three—the three great things.

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My Sorrow, when she's here with me,
Thinks these dark days of autumn rain
Are beautiful as days can be;
She loves the bare, the withered tree;
She walks the sodden pasture lane.

Robert Frost
My object is living is to unite
My avocation with my vocation
As my two eyes make one in sight.

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My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.

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All out of doors looked darkly in at him
Through the thin frost, almost in separate stars,
That gathers on the pane in empty rooms.

Robert Frost
The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long time, or a short time, but it is then that he must strike it or never. School and college have been conducted with the almost express purpose of keeping him busy with something else till the danger of his ever creating anything is past.

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As for his evil tidings,
Belshazzar's overthrow,
Why hurry to tell Belshazzar
What soon enough he would know?

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Not to sink under being man and wife,
But get some color and music out of life?

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A theory if you hold it hard enough And long enough gets rated as a creed..

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Here come real stars to fill the upper skies, And here on earth come emulating flies, That though they never equal stars in size, (And they were never really stars at heart) Achieve at times a very star-like start.

Robert Frost
How are we to write
The Russian novel in America
As long as life goes so unterribly?

Robert Frost
Even while we talk some chemist at Columbia Is stealthily contriving wool from jute...

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When I was young my teachers were the old.
I gave up fire for form till I was cold.

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When a friend calls to me from the road And slows his horse to a meaning walk, I don't stand still and look around On all the hills I haven't hoed, And shout from where I am, What is it? No, not as there is a time to talk. I thrust my hoe in the mellow ground, Blade-end up and five feet tall, And plod: I go up to the stone wall For a friendly visit.

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Than smoke and mist who better could appraise
The kindred spirit of an inner haze?

Robert Frost
You know how cunningly mankind is planned:
We have one loving and one hating hand.
The loving's made to hold each other like,
While with the hating other hand we strike.

Robert Frost
Of all crimes the worst
Is to steal the glory
From the great and brave,
Even more accursed
Than to rob the grave.

Robert Frost
The city is all right. To live in one
Is to be civilized, stay up and read
Or sing and dance all night and see sunrise
By waiting up instead of getting up.

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